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Athalia Ponsell Lindsley (July 25, 1917 – January 23, 1974) was an American model, [ 1 ] Broadway dancer, political activist and television personality on the show Winner Take All. Lindsley was murdered on the front steps of her home in St. Augustine, Florida. Neighbor Alan Griffin Stanford Jr., with whom she had ongoing feud at the time, was ...
[237] [239] Augustine praises women and their role in society and in the Church. In his Tractates on the Gospel of John, Augustine, commenting on the Samaritan woman from John 4:1–42, uses the woman as a figure of the Church in agreement with the New Testament teaching that the Church is the bride of Christ. [240] "Husbands, love your wives ...
Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death. She is the first woman sentenced to death in Mobile County. Christie Michelle Scott [9] In August 2008, a blaze broke out at the home of Christie Michelle Scott in Russellville, Alabama, killing her six-year-old son, Mason. Scott had purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on ...
Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is an autobiographical work by Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. [1] The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of Saint Augustine in ...
Contents. List of women executed in the United States since 1976. Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [ 1 ] Women represent about 1.12 percent of the 1,601 executions performed in the United States since 1976.
December 1996. William Darrell "Bill" Lindsey (born Armstrong; May 18, 1935 – April 17, 2001), also known as Crazy Bill, was an American serial killer who murdered six women in St. Augustine, Florida, and one in Asheville, North Carolina, between 1983 and 1996. As part of a plea deal, he pleaded guilty to six of the murders and received a 30 ...
Monica (c. 332 – 387) was an early North African Christian saint and the mother of Augustine of Hippo.She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on different feast days, for her outstanding Christian virtues, particularly the suffering caused by her husband's adultery, and her prayerful life dedicated to the reformation of her son, who wrote extensively of ...
The City of God. For other uses, see City of God (disambiguation). On the City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. The book was in response to allegations that Christianity brought ...